What happens when lightning strikes sand?

Answer 1

the energy in the lightning is dispersed thoughout the ground "earthing it" but the intense heat fuses the sand particals by melting it, in effect creating a kind of glass. this is only in a small area so you get a root like form of grass as the lightning disperses through the sand and intensly heating the sand beyound melting

Answer 2

Fulgurite is a rare natural glass that sometimes forms when lightning strikes silica, a mineral often found in sand.The extreme temperature melts the silica into a liquid. It then cools and hardens and becomes glass. This all takes place very quickly.

Answer 3

According to the published article cited below, if lightning strikes sand of a certain composition, it makes "petrified lightning" which is also called a fulgurite. These are described as being hollow tubes with silica glass walls.

Now I want to see one of these!

http://ira.usf.edu/CAM/exhibitions/1998_12_McCollum/supplemental_didactics/47.Petrified.pdf

Answer 4

Lightning is a high voltage electric if strike the sand potential electricity becomes zero the result sand is burnt

Answer 5

After it melted the sand according its strength because of the opposite electrical charge the electricity will be bounced back as the shape of the handle of umbrella. Therefore standing near the building out side at a shorter distance is also more dangerous. Either you should go inside the building or you must make your body as a ball and sit at open ground avoiding any tree or lamp post nearby.

Answer 6

Common S is Correct. It sometimes will melt the sand downward like the lightning bolt burrowed into the sand.
It did.

Answer 7

sometimes it makes glass root like shapes of melted sand..

Answer 8

It melts the sand and creates a fulgurite.

Answer 9

melts the sand grains together into random-sized globules of glass...so i've been told

Answer 10

The golfer in the bunker is covered with glass and scores a triple bogey.